# "child "meta\_fields" fails because \["meta\_fields" must be an array\]" after configuring Kafka logs and metrics **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Created:** [October 4, 2019, 9:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/child-meta-fields-fails-because-meta-fields-must-be-an-array-after-configuring-kafka-logs-and-metrics/202395 "2019-10-04T21:54:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mrubin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19adc/32.png) [@mrubin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mrubin)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 9:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/child-meta-fields-fails-because-meta-fields-must-be-an-array-after-configuring-kafka-logs-and-metrics/202395/1 "2019-10-04T21:54:29Z")
I am running ES/Kibana 7.4.0 on Elastic Cloud and wanted to try out the "Kafka logs" and "Kafka metrics". I followed the instructions to install filebeat-7.4.0 and metricbeat-7.4.0 on my Kafka nodes (running on AWS EC2 linux instances; Kafka version 1.1) via RPM. Everything installed without issue. When I visit the "[Filebeat Kafka] Overview ECS" Dashboard, I see 4 panes and every one of them shows: child "meta\_fields" fails because ["meta\_fields" must be an array] When I visit the "[Metricbeat Kafka] Overview ECS" Dashboard, I see 5 panes of data and 3 more panes with the "child "meta\_fields" fails because ["meta\_fields" must be an array]" message. I followed the installation instructions from within Kibana. Everything installed correctly. What are these errors? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 11:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/child-meta-fields-fails-because-meta-fields-must-be-an-array-after-configuring-kafka-logs-and-metrics/202395/2 "2019-11-01T23:54:30Z")
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